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Welcome to the
1ST INTERNATIONAL
SYMPOSIUM ON BAT MIGRATION
Berlin, Germany, 16-18 January 2009
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Dear Colleague,
We wish to extend a cordial invitation
to you to participate in the International Symposium on Bat Migration
to be held from 16-18 January 2009, in Berlin, Germany.The aim of this symposium is to foster
an exchange of ideas among international specialists from many disciplines
working on migratory bats.
Plenary Talks
- We have invited three plenary speakers
to review thought-provoking and visionary topics regarding the migration
of bats.
- Aeroecology
- The next frontier (Prof. Thomas Kunz, Boston University, Boston
USA)
- How
far are we from tracking small animals globally (Prof. Martin
Wikelski, Max-Planck-Institute for Ornithology Radolfzell, Germany)
- Migratory
bats and wind turbines (Dr. Paul Cryan, U.S. Geological Survey,
Fort Collins, USA)
Sessions/Workshops
We suggest several exciting topics as
sessions or workshops:
- Migratory
connectivity and phenology (Organizers: Carlos Ibáñez
and Ana G. Popa-Lisseanu)
- Tracking
resource use in space and time (Organizer: Gary McCracken)
- Physiology,
behavior and bat navigation (Organizers: Chris Guglielmo,
Richard Holland and Christian Voigt)
- Population
genetics and mating systems (Organizers: Gerald Wilkinson
and Frieder Mayer)
- Human-bat
conflict and conservation of migratory bats (Organizers: Paul
Cryan and Edward Arnett)
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Open
topics
This conference is co-hosted by:
 Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research
 Federal Institute
for Risk Assessment in Berlin
 Berlin Museum of Natural History
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